Washington Post: Netanyahu Decided On Iran War Last Year, Then Sought To Recruit Trump

NEW: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claims that the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities had no major effect https://t.co/4CYNuwugaR

— Axios (@axios) June 26, 2025

Not that we needed any more confirmation, but the Washington Post reports that the Israeli-US attack on Iran was decided months earlier and had nothing to do with nuclear weapons.

Senior Israeli officials say they "already decided by March" to attack Iran — the same month the… pic.twitter.com/LmAKBeHfjr

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 25, 2025

"Israel was really being pounded, and again, it was going to run out of missiles that could be used to protect Israel."

Prof. John Mearsheimer and @ggreenwald on why the "12 Day War" was so brief and what the war revealed about Israel's military capabilities: pic.twitter.com/zpAklMi1ER

— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) June 25, 2025

John Mearsheimer is right.

The “12 Day War” is over for now because Israel needed to be resupplied with missile interceptors. The ones we have already spent defending Israel from Iranian missiles cost half a billion dollars. Israel passed a law during the conflict which criminalized posting war damage to social media. The current peacefire is like the one in Gaza where Israel resumed the war after Trump transferred weapons to Netanyahu.

Washington Post:

“JERUSALEM — In the fall, long before President Donald Trump embarked on an effort to resolve concerns over Iran’s nuclear program through negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already set Israel on the road to war, according to current and former Israeli officials.

After Israel decimated Iran’s air defenses in a missile skirmish and crippled its main ally, Hezbollah, in October, Netanyahu issued a general order to prepare for a strike, the current and former officials said. Israeli intelligence officials began huddling to compile lists of dozens of Iranian nuclear scientists and military leaders who could be targeted for assassination. Israel’s air force began to systematically take out air defenses in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to clear the skies for future bombing runs against Iran.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials were pursuing another track in their preparations — to sway Washington. Israeli officials have long believed that military action with U.S. participation to target the Iranian nuclear program would be more effective than Israel going alone. On Saturday, Trump indeed joined the conflict, ordering U.S. forces, including B-2 strategic bombers, to strike three Iranian nuclear sites …

In private conversations, however, senior Israeli government officials said they had already decided by March, weeks before Netanyahu met Trump in the Oval Office on April 7, to strike Iran with or without U.S. participation by June at the latest, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The reasoning was that Iran would have rebuilt its air defenses by the latter half of the year, one of the people said …”

So, let us review where things stand today:

• The president of the United States has used the U.S. military to attack a foreign country on behalf of Israel. This is also the second time it has happened. The first time was when Trump assassinated General Soleimani for Israel in his first term
• Bibi Netanyahu has been shopping this war to American presidents since at least the Obama administration. He made the decision to go to war last year with or without Trump
• Bibi Netanyahu correctly calculated that he could maneuver Trump into the war
• The negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program were nothing more than a ruse by the Trump administration to lull Iran into a false sense of complacency and a psyop against Trump’s own supporters who wanted to believe he was serious about engaging in diplomacy
• The strike on Iran was sold to the public based on an avalanche of lies about an impending second Holocaust, hysteria about Iranian sleeper cells, a “mushroom cloud” over New York City, etc.
• The Ayatollah is claiming that Iran’s nuclear facilities are intact
• The war has been paused for now because Iranian strikes depleted Israel’s air defenses

Just wonderful.

We have learned from this experience that in the span of a week we can get dragged into a war with Iran by Israel based on the same lies that FOX News used to get us into the Iraq War. Israel could also resume this war at anytime it chooses and Bibi Netanyahu has been boosted and empowered by it. Israel has learned that it pays to always escalate conflicts with its enemies and the MAGA base has been conditioned to shout down anyone who is skeptical of Trump’s foreign policy decisions as a “Panican.”